The research aimed to characterize banana 'Maçã' farmers of Ribeirão do Sul/SP region, regarding the technology applied to the crop and in the fruit yield. With the answers obtained, it was possible to establish some inferences in relation to the "Mal do-Panamá disease incidence and the mineral nutrition. It was observed that these farmers used manurig and liming without the use of the soil analyses and that they had never performed foliar analyses. Consequently, soil and leaves nutrients levels were not balanced for most of the evaluated plantation. The "Mal-do-Panamá" disease incidence was considered low or not present in 65% of the studied orchards.
Musa sp.; banana; mineral nutrition; soil fertility; phytopathology
